In stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie, the riders embarked on the queen stage from Marly to Les Diablerets with climbs up to altitudes around 2’000 meters. Bad weather moved in with snow and freezy temperatures on the Col des Mosses and the Col de la Paix. Chris Froome followed Simon Spilak’s wheel to [...]
The third stage of the Tour de Romandie took three curcuits around Payerne over 181 km. A group of six dominated the first 100 kilometers: Marcus Burghardt (BMC), Steven Kruisjswijk (Blanco), Julien Bérard (AG2R-La Mondiale), Kévin Reza (Europcar), Matthias Brändle (IAM), and Peio Bilbao (Euskaltel-Euskadi). The peloton then rejoined the six, and with 10 kilometers [...]
The second stage of the Tour de Romandie led from Lausanne at lake Geneva to Granges – watch capital and home of BMC bicycle manufacture and a new velodrome. The second of two muontain ascents during the 190 km stage was dominated by Pierre Roland (Europcar) who escaped but was caught by the peloton. Ramunas [...]
Stage one of the Tour de Romandie led from St. Maurice to Renens through the French part of Switzerland. Britain’s Chris Froome of team Sky retained the yellow jersey. Belgian Gianni Meersman of team Omega Pharma-QuickStep won the sprint finish while Mark Cavendish of the same team had mechanical problems midway through the 176 km [...]
Construction in Spain boomed – until the economy collapsed in 2008. The result of the property bubble bursting are abandoned building sites omnipresent in Spain. In the 1990ies Spain saw strong economic growth and the admittance to the Eurozone. Interest rates fell to historic lows with the introduction of the euro in 2002 which attracted [...]
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Construction in Spain boomed – until the economy collapsed in 2008. The result of the property bubble bursting are abandoned building sites omnipresent in Spain. In the 1990ies Spain saw strong economic growth and the admittance to the Eurozone. Interest rates fell to historic lows with the introduction of the euro in 2002 which attracted [...]
Tusdale glen in the south west of Skye is a valley sheltered from the wind blowing on the summits and on the shore. The sun shines on the southern slopes of the hills. A creek meanders through green meadows. In the middle of the 19th century, Tusdale was so busy it was nicknamed «the capital of Skye». Today, there is no road connecting the valley to the rest of the island, and Skye’s population has more than halfed. Sheep graze around ruins of destroyed cottages.
When you stroll into town and a surfer in neoprene walks past you carrying his board, don’t wonder. River surfing is very popular in Munich. There has been a local surf scene for more than three decades. Surfers from all over the world come to surf the wave.
In a great team performance, Bradley Wiggins won the 99th edition of the Tour de France after having taken the lead in the first time trial. With persistent concentration, the Sky team escorted their captain over the 3497 kilometers of the Tour.
Spain has its bullfights with toreros whose style and bravery even Ernest Hemingway, Federico García Lorca and Pablo Picasso admired. In the Americas, it’s rodeo and the cowboys. Even in the Roman Empire, gladiators used to entertain their audiences with fightings against bulls. Here in Switzerland, we also have some kind of bovine fightings.
After two weeks’ travelling by train through Europe we’ve been on the railway tracks for more than 4’500 kilometers (almost 3’000 miles). One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller There is a big advantage in travelling by train over flying. You actually see and smell the [...]
Fifty-eight degrees north, in the North Atlantic ocean, seventy kilometers off the west coast of mainland Scotland, lies an island chain where the weather changes within minutes from hail storms to glowing sunlight: the Outer Hebrides. The archipelago consists of more than 100 islands of which only 15 are inhabited. The main islands are Lewis and Harris (actually [...]
